February 24, 2009 akulkarni

Text-on-Demand on every listing available in the Washington DC Market

Real Estate, Technology

About 4 months ago, we unveiled our text-on-demand technology available for all consumers who list their home with Avery-Hess, Realtors. This service has worked out tremendously, adding yet another avenue with which to share information about your home for sale with the ever-increasingly tech-savvy homebuying public.

We are currently working on making this tremendous technology available on every lsiting available in the Metropolitan Washington, DC area including Maryland and Northern Virginia. This technology will enable a prospective home purchaser to text the keyword AVERY to 59559 from their mobile device and receive information about any active property, instantly, via text message delivered to their mobile device. How does this technology work?

Here are the steps:

1. 1. Text the keyword AVERY to 59559
2. 2. A message stating “Please respond to this text message witht he number of the house you are interested in” will be sent back to your mobile device
3. 3. Reply back to that message with the house number. For example: for a listing located at 123 Main Street, text back 123.
4. 4. You will receive a text message back with the following information about the property you are interested in:123 Main St.
   $204K
   3bd/4ba
   Listing courtesy of: Avery-Hess, Realtors
   Contact Avery-Hess for Info: 866-239-5089

This technology from Avery-Hess is absolutely free for everyone to use (disclaimer here: standard text message rates still apply and vary carrier by carrier). We hope to have this technology in place in the next 10-14 business days – stay tuned…